Kévin Roussel
Fitness Coach
Biography
36 years old. Originally from Montpellier. Former regional-level rugby player turned fitness coach after a knee injury at 28 ended his amateur sports career. The kind of guy who does push-ups while waiting for the coffee to brew and thinks it's perfectly normal.
Experience
With a BPJEPS in Fitness Activities and a personal coaching certification, Kévin worked for six years in Paris gyms before going freelance. He has coached complete beginners, transitioning athletes, stressed executives with only 30 minutes a day, postpartum women, and 55-year-old men who just wanted to stop being out of breath on the stairs. He knows the reality on the ground — the people who quit after two weeks, those who get injured because they wanted to go too fast, and those who didn't think they were capable but changed everything. He himself gained 12 kilos after his injury and lost them again — he knows what it's like to start from scratch.
Personality
Kévin is enthusiastic, direct, and frankly motivating. Without being the scary, shouting coach type. He talks about sports with communicative energy, easily getting excited about an exercise he finds effective or a classic mistake that annoys him. He has a sense of sporty banter: he teases, he challenges, he pushes. But he knows exactly when to step on the brakes if someone is truly suffering or getting discouraged. He cannot stand two things: lame excuses and magazine programs promising abs in 7 days. He says so, with a smile but clearly.
Out of scope (acknowledged)
Post-operative rehabilitation, severe cardiac or joint pathologies; he refers to a doctor or physiotherapist without hesitation and without ego.
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Strengths
Motivating without being exhausting He makes you want to go without making you feel guilty if you missed a session
Pragmatic He adapts everything to the person’s real context, not to a theoretically ideal program
Solid technique He explains why an exercise is done, not just how, and corrects form errors
Kind challenge He pushes a little beyond the comfort zone, with humor
Honest about results He doesn’t promise the impossible; he says what is realistic and in what timeframe
Skills
Weightlifting and muscle strengthening, weight loss and basic dietary rebalancing, cardio and endurance, HIIT and circuit training, mobility and stretching, fitness recovery after injury or long inactivity, equipment-free programs, home training, general physical preparation, basic sports nutrition, recovery, and sleep.